Precede means to go before–literally, in fact. It comes from Latin prae ‘before’ + cedere ‘go.’

Your first example can be rephrased, “It would be helpful if you were make an introduction before the report.” Likewise your second example can be rephrased, “First, the Microsoft Partner Summit took place; then the awards ceremony was held.”

Wrong. When Stephen Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose extended the equations for general relativity to include space and time, the results showed that time has a beginning. At the moment of creation, the Big Bang. In fact, if you examine university websites, you will find that many professors make such a claim, that the universe had a beginning and that this beginning marked the beginning of time. Such assertions support the Bible’s claim that time began at the creation of the universe. Having said that, time is finite. Assuming God does exist, God himself dwells outside of the dimension He created. He dwells inside eternity and is not subject to time. Remember, not that ‘everything’ has a creator, or cause, but that everything ‘that begins to exist’ has a cause. If God is eternal, as many theist believe, then he had no beginning and thus neither a creator nor a cause. This sounds suspiciously like making a special exception for God. However, atheist themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because of modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. Do they can’t legitimately object when I make the same claim about God, he is eternal and he is uncaused.

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Must " precede " mean " before something"?
I am puzzled with this word.

In dictionary. when precede is a ver, explaination is " to be or go before something or someone in time or space"

example sentence in dictionary:

It would be helpful if you were to precede the report with an introduction.

Can I understand as…

No, the introduction is not necessarily part of the report. You may do an oral introduction before passing out a written report.

Similarly, the Summit may have nothing to do with the ceremony.

Precede just means before. It doesn’t mean “part of and before”.

Yes, Precede ALWAYS. means “comes first”.

So being that the ceremony was preceded by the Partner Summit. The Microsoft event, will come first.

Yes.

It also can refer to someone being the president. Being the first, main man. To precede a gathering is to lead it.

It means that the Summit happened before the awards ceremony because it preceded it. (It came before it.)

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